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Prita Kumar

turns in investment banking and private equity, “hoping that I would love that career path because it was filled with extremely intelligent people and highly analytical work.” While Prita did “work with C-suite executives and saw various... View Details

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Shantanu Rege

"Investors from China, the U.S., Japan, India, and other countries are competing for the same pool of capital. I want to look at the macroeconomic trends to see how you should allocate capital in a globalized world. An HBS MBA pulls together the quantitative View Details

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Paul Lenehan

In high school, Paul Lenehan was impressed by the way economics "explained events behind the news. It gave me a lens for understanding how the world works." An attraction to business plans led to an interest in consulting.... View Details

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Awards | Commencement 2025

Awards Awards are given annually in several categories. Alumni Achievement Awards For more than 50 years, Harvard Business School has selected a number of outstanding graduates to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement... View Details

01 Jan 2010
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Susan L. Decker, MBA 1986

financial ship as CFO, built the company’s advertiser and publisher group as EVP, and oversaw global business operations as president. Since leaving Yahoo! in 2009, Decker has taken time out from the corporate world to focus on what... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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The Past Informs the Future of Work

automating local telephone operation by converting to dial phones, it had to grapple with the business and societal impact of dramatically reducing human interface. A century later, artificial intelligence, big data, and advancements in... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

16 Nov 2011
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Are Humans Cost-Effective?

course there is the obvious upside. As IBM says, such business analytics systems “help cut costs, boost profits, manage risk, and make better predictions about your customers and your market.” One area in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

Care contains the analytic framework for students who want to innovate the sector. It is entirely taught through current field-based case studies of health care innovations. Innovating in Health Care (Q1) is the prerequisite for the next... View Details

07 Jul 2020
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The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground

program, is one of the best examples of how the JD/MBA program encourages rigorous but collaborative debate. A bit of a background on the program—the JD/MBA is a four-year degree in which students spend their full first year at either Harvard Law School or Harvard... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

outright. Roberto offers effective methods and real-world examples of how the most successful organizations create cultures of innovation and experimentation. He examines how to break barriers to spark creativity and foster new ideas. 52 Things We Wish Someone Had Told... View Details

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Staff Directory | Baker Library

Staff Directory Ana Elena Azpúrua HBS Working Knowledge Ana plays a key role in bringing faculty research to a broader audience of business professionals through compelling maps, charts, and other forms of visual storytelling. Before... View Details

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Alexandra C. Feldberg

work, I developed a deep interest in gender and knowledge transfer in organizations. Although I enjoyed the analytical aspects of consulting work, I missed being in an academic environment. I realized that the depth, precision, and rigor... View Details

2008
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Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

By: Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III

This paper analyzes changes in concentration levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services (A&MS) industry using publicly released data that have been largely ignored in past discussions of the industrial organization of this industry, namely those available... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Mergers and Acquisitions; Revenue; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Marketing; Measurement and Metrics; Rank and Position; Competition; Advertising Industry; Service Industry; United States

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Max Seel

As an undergraduate, Max Seel had two encounters that would mold his ambitions. The first was with a professor, Tom Warren, who recruited Max into an analytical chemistry research fellowship that explored naturally occurring cylindrical... View Details

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Adil Seetal

Before he even made the move from his home in Mauritius to Oxford University, Adil Seetal had already established his major: engineering. While he liked the analytical part of engineering, Adil "missed the interaction with people. I... View Details

February 2022
Teaching Plan

Community Solutions

By: Brian Trelstad and Tom Quinn

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 322-021. Community Solutions was an anti-homelessness nonprofit founded in 2011 after protagonist Rosanne Haggerty grew frustrated with the limited impact of traditional housing and outreach strategies. It set an ambitious goal, reached... View Details

Keywords: Homelessness; Social Issues; Housing; Human Needs; Poverty; Welfare; Business and Community Relations; Analytics and Data Science; Business Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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01 Oct 1997
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Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses are continually being... View Details

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate

Harvard Business School professors Richard S. Tedlow and Rawi Abdelal, who provided a historical perspective on Levitt's work at the Globalization of Markets colloquium held May 28-30. The twentieth-year anniversary of the article has... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog

strategic, operating, investment, and financing decisions. The course emphasizes the development of practical insights rather than formal theories. We will cover the shortcomings of the frameworks developed in RC Finance 1 and 2. We will discuss how the View Details

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Classroom and Field Work: Methods of Instruction | Baker Library

Harvard University. TC 172-2-13 Field Work The field work apprenticeship program ran from 1937 until women entered the Harvard Business School MBA program in the early 1960s. "The field work provided the students with immediate practice... View Details

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